Suckerfish

<p><b>A <i>STYLIST </i>and <i>RADIO TIMES</i> Most Anticipated Book for 2026<br></b><br>'Brilliantly unsettling' <i><b>Marie Claire</b></i><br>'Complicated, brilliant and achingly real . . . <i>Suckerfish </i>will quietly rip at your heart and then gently stitch it back up again' <i><b>The Skinny</b></i></p><p><i>There are women with higher callings than motherhood. And there are their daughters.</i></p><p>Kolia is in her twenties, caring for other people's children and looking for a way out of London's dead-end days. She is not looking to be pulled back into the orbit of her passionate, fiery, vulnerable mother, but she may have no choice.<br><br>In Kolia's childhood, her mother loomed large, both saint and celebrity. Now, she will go to any lengths to repair relations with her estranged daughter.<br><br>A painful love letter to childishness, innocence and imagination, <i>SUCKERFISH</i> scrutinises what we really owe each other.</p><p>'The archetypal working, absent, vindictive mother that society is so scared of is fully realised here in complex glory' <b>Jess Shannon, author of <i>Cleaner</i></b><br>'Lewis's writing is likably feisty and alive, full of verve and pizzazz' <i><b>Guardian</b></i><br>'Explores the knottiness of care and ambition with great empathy' <b>Sarvat Hasin, author of <i>Strange Girls</i></b></p>